Do websites in LaTeX? Wow!

(with my apologies, and my thickest, faux-Aussie Paul Hogan accent)

“Geek??? Now, *that’s* a geek!"

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote:
> Probably not what you want, but I author all my websites in LaTeX, and
> use a combination of LaTeX2HTML and Makefiles to publish the site. I
> use subversion or git to do content management. You could also use
> latexml, which provides a slightly more modern output, but I like
> LaTex2HTML because its basically a bunch of perl scripts that are
> eminenently hackable.
>
> Great for static websites, with all the added goodness of LaTeX (which
> is a superior markup language for most purposes than Markdown).
>
> Its also fairly easy to embed PHP and Javascript code directly into
> the LaTeX source files too, so dynamic websites are also possible, but
> with LaTeX macros, and perl scriptability, a lot can be done statically.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 04:16:47PM -0600, Robert Wall wrote:
>> Hi Owen, et al.,
>>
>> You might also try this nearly-free ($17)
>> <https://sites.fastspring.com/openwe/instant/kirby2-personal>,
>> well-supported <http://getkirby.com/support>, database-free CMS
>> <http://web.appstorm.net/reviews/web-dev/kirby-the-flat-file-cms-thatll-make-you-rethink-content-management/>
>> called Kirby <http://getkirby.com/>.  It is file-based and very easy to
>> implement just about anything you want to do on an individual personal
>> website. You can also experiment locally with Kirby (without a host) on
>> MAMP, XAMPP and PHP's built-in server for local installations.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Robert Wall
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Are any of us using a static site generator? Here's a list:
>> >     https://www.staticgen.com/
>> > Basically it gets rid of the need for a Content Management System,
>> > compiling the site from Markdown and html templates.
>> >
>> > I'm thinking of doing this, my old ISP died and it would be a good time
>> > for a change.
>> >
>> >    -- Owen
>> >
>> >
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